[ILUG] TOTD: checking for authorative nameservers

['Rick Moen']

Quoting Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions (michele at blacknight.ie):

> > Ja, but this one's _really_ cool:  http://www.dnsreport.com/
> 
> So is: http://www.dnsdoctor.org
> 
> Checking which DNS are authorative is fine, but you need to also check that
> there aren't any odd errors

Er, you didn't actually _use_ www.dnsreport.com, did you?  It gives one
heck of a lot more information than that.

The www.dnsdoctor.org CGI is inflexible, for starters:  It insists that 
it can check only zone deirdre.ORG (one of my wife's domains), because 
it thinks our wireless base station (from which my laptop reaches the
Internet) belongs to that domain.  The CGI then gives pretty paltry
results for my wife's DNS -- which, it turns out, are largely wrong, at
that.

I'm rather less than impressed, really.